suppose i become a very succesful man in future ,i owe a lot of property so wat will i do with that money ,i’ll try 2 increment my balance more and more and………………….more but wats d use of that??hav i done anything 4 my country who has given me all this???no i havn’t done a single thing.

in contrast there is a person who is not makin a lot money but watever he has gained or learned in his life ,he is givin that to his country with the thinking that this will help my countrymen somehow.

who is more successful ??????u know d ans. if u hav d ability to think lik the man

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Light displays on Toronto’s CN Tower, Ottawa’s Parliament Buildings, and Niagara Falls will be entirely controlled by people’s thoughts. “The McGuinty Government is excited to have InteraXon participate at Ontario House during the 2010 Olympic Games. This unique attraction showcases three of our tourism icons in an innovative, exciting and interactive way,” says Michael Chan, Ontario Minister of Tourism and Culture.

Users will have the chance to experience the latest in Ontario technology innovation at InteraXon’s Bright Ideas installation. “Imagine controlling anything without the touch of a button - expanding your ability to change the world beyond your physical self. It gives you a sense of the potential of the technology we are bringing into everyday life,” says InteraXon’s CEO Ariel Garten.

The headset used in the installation measures the brain’s electrical output and reacts to alpha waves, associated with relaxation, and beta waves, associated with concentration. As the users relax or focus their thoughts, the computer will send a message over the internet to the site they are viewing.

InteraXon’s custom software connects users thoughts to the lighting controls to change the display on the landmark site. The outcome is a thought-generated light show that will be visible to the local residents in Toronto, Ottawa and Niagara Falls and will be projected on massive screens in Ontario House during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.

“We’re working to bring thought-controlled computing out of research labs and into the mainstream,” explains Trevor Coleman, COO. “InteraXon helps companies looking to engage in the exploding thought controlled computing market develop their own brainwave-controlled products and services.” As brainwave technology reaches its full potential, the implications for the disabled are immense. Thought controlled wheelchairs and prosthetics are already a reality, and will become more accessible and affordable in the coming years.

“As the technology gets smaller, more precise, and less expensive there’s no limit to the kinds of things we can control with our minds,” adds Chief Technical Officer Chris Aimone. “We can fit a demonstration into a briefcase and take it to your office.”

People who live in New Orleans found out the hard way that the city can be a bad place to be when a big hurricane comes. Most of the Big Easy is below sea level and it filled up with floodwaters from the storm surge when the levees broke.

Engineers are installing a big new pump they say should keep the city dry in case another big hurricane blows in. In engineer-talk, they call it the West Closure Complex, or WCC, and they say it’s the biggest pump station ever built. If everything stays on schedule, it should be completed in 2011.

The West Closure Complex will protect the city from storm surge in the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway with two layers of defense.  Protection starts with steel floodgates sturdy and tall enough to block a 16-foot storm surge. Then they’ll fire up the pumps. These are big pumps, big enough to empty an Olympic-sized swimming pool in less than 5 seconds.

They’re built solid, so they won’t collapse under pressure, the way the city’s levees did last time. The WCC is built to stand up to 140 mile-per-hour wind. Even runaway barges can’t dent it. The wind sounds like it’s rising, and we’ll see you later.

• NASA and GM have unveiled robots that work alongside humans — on Earth and in space.
• Engineers are trying to mimic human form and have the Robonaut work at human speeds.
• NASA may employ the robots as spacewalkers’ assistants.

“A giant robot swinging around that doesn’t know whether a person is there or not is a bad thing. You can end up with all kinds of accidents. Robots can be very dangerous pieces of equipment,” Marty Linn, GM’s principal engineer of robotics, told Discovery News.

Large robots currently used in GM’s factories are caged to protect workers.

For the past three years, engineers from NASA and GM have been working on the prototypes, called Robonauts, at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. GM’s droid likely will end up at the firm’s technology development center in Michigan, where engineers will use it as a test bed for sensors, software and other products that could be incorporated into future cars. It could also improve manufacturing processes.

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“This is a human-scale robot. It works at human speeds. We’re working closer and closer to the human form, and that’s a difficult challenge,” added Ron Diftler, who oversees the Robonaut project for NASA.

NASA would like to see a robot in space, with enough dexterity to handle pliable insulation and other materials too tricky for the cranes and robotic arms available on the space station today.

“We are foreseeing this as an EVA (extravehicular activity, or spacewalk) assistant,” Diftler said.

For example, the droid could save time and reduce risks to spacewalking astronauts by going outside first to prepare work sites.

The Robonauts, which were unveiled Thursday, are based on work NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency did a decade ago.

The product is almost pure silicon dioxide (glass is made from silica) plus some water or ethanol, depending on its ultimate use. When applied to a surface, the coating is super thin, about 500 times thinner than a human hair, which makes it invisible and keeps it flexible and breathable. According to the Nanopool, any surface — house, car, floor, counter, even clothing — can be coated with the liquid glass.And the coating repels bacteria, water and dirt, and resists heat, ultraviolet light and acid. That would render cleaning products almost useless, since all you’d have to do is wipe the surface clean with a damp cloth.

Nanopool has even tested the liquid on vines to keep them free of mildew and fungus.

The company says the spray is non-toxic and that the are no added nano-particles, resins or additives — the coatings bond due to forces that keep molecules together.

I was skeptical about this, so I called up Andrew Maynard, the chief science advisor to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies in Washington, D.C.

“Silicon dioxide is a fairly innocuous substance,” he said. And from just the initial news, “there are no warning flags that would indicate that you have an unusual health risk.”

“My biggest concern is when you’re actually applying it,” he said. “It will be released into the air and people are going to inhale it.”

That health risk could be on par with any other product that is sprayed.

“This all comes down to making sure the manufacturer provides information that is good enough for people to use it safely,” said Maynard.

According to the company’s web site, the spray-on glass will be available in the U.K. starting in early 2010.

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Husk Power owns and operates miniature power plants generating between 35 kw and 100 kw of electricity from paddy husk that it supplies to consumers in off-grid villages. The startup plans to raise a fresh round of venture capital this month to scale up operations to more than 60 villages and to set up 50 plants to generate electricity from the current level of 22 plants by May 2010. “We have an open-source model of operations and can very quickly replicate across multiple locations,” says Pandey, an electrical engineer from IIT Varanasi, who envisages Husk Power Systems rolling out services akin to a cell phone company.

In the last few years, India emerged as a laboratory for innovations in the alternative energy space with entrepreneurs and investors looking to build innovative solutions to address a power-starved economy. The is happening at a time when other countries are losing their luster in clean tech. North America’s share of clean technology venture capital was down from 72 percent in 2008 to 62 percent in 2009, a four-year low.

It is the opportunity in bio-mass-generated electricity that Husk Power Systems is chasing, with plans now to replicate its model in Bihar in other states such as West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. “Our model works around involving local teams. There is no magic wand that we use, we just keep technology simple, generate power and feed it to consumers who have no access to state-grid power,” says Pandey. Currently, Husk Power offers electricity at Rs.80 for 30 watts and Rs.40 for every incremental 15 watts. This allows rural homes to get about 6-7 hours of electricity.

“The idea is to have a 40 kw plant that services perhaps four villages,” Pandey, who feels the price point makes it possible for consumers, who depend on kerosene lamps or diesel generated power, to switch easily to this cleaner source.

After months of unsuccessful attempts at freeing the rover from a sandtrap, NASA on Tuesday said it has decided to make the best of the situation and instruct it to conduct scientific experiments from its current location.

The rover became trapped last April when one of its wheels broke through a crusty Martian surface and dug into the fine, powdery soil beneath it. After many so-called extraction activities, including wiggling the wheels and rotating them very slowly, NASA scientists have decided to stop trying to extract the rover and refocus their efforts.

Artist’s concept of Spirit on Mars.
(Credit: NASA)

“Spirit is not dead; it has just entered another phase of its long life,” Doug McCuistion, director of the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington, said in a statement. “We told the world last year that attempts to set the beloved robot free may not be successful. It looks like Spirit’s current location on Mars will be its final resting place.”

Now, scientists will focus on getting Spirit through the upcoming Martian winter. The main concern is getting the solar-powered rover to store up enough energy that it can keep its onboard electronics sufficiently warm during the cold winter months.

It is now autumn on Mars, and the days are getting shorter, which means opportunities for Spirit to collect sunlight are dwindling. Now, scientists will use what power it has left to try to reposition the vehicle–and its solar panels–to maximize the amount of sunlight it can collect. It is currently tilting toward the south, but the sun is in the north. NASA said Tuesday that, at its current angle, the rover is not likely to be able to communicate with Earth through winter. If Spirit survives, it will continue its scientific research.

“There’s a class of science we can do only with a stationary vehicle that we had put off during the years of driving,” Steve Squyres, a researcher at Cornell University and principal investigator for the Mars rovers, said in a statement. “Degraded mobility does not mean the mission ends abruptly. Instead, it lets us transition to stationary science.”

That work could include studying variations in the planet’s rotation over the course of several months, with the hope of gaining insights about the planet’s core.

Meanwhile, Spirit’s sister rover, Opportunity, is still healthy and is heading south toward a crater called Concepcion, which is estimated to be about 1,000 years old and one of the youngest craters explored by NASA on the Red Planet.

Spirit travel map

This map shows Spirit’s travels over the last several years, circumnavigating an area called Home Plate.